Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)

I ask the Minister of State to relay the importance of this issue to his Cabinet colleagues. I cannot emphasise strongly enough the importance of this issue and how difficult it is for all the families concerned in Kerry. I have no doubt it is similar in other counties and throughout the country. I am pleading again. It is an opportune site and an opportune location for the Department of children, the HSE and St. John of God to make a plan and not shove the can down the road any further. They are sick to death of hearing this over many years. It is time for action. It is in the programme for Government. It is supposed to be a priority of Government. We need it to happen now.

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